To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Recitation: by Male by Female
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.
John Hume
FatherChildrenSupportYouPoor
You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.
Robert Kiyosaki
MechanicYouLookGoWantTeachers
When I went home at 20 to tell my parents, 'I don't want to be an engineer, I want to try and write books,' I was braced for, 'That's not gonna happen.' But I didn't get that response, and maybe it was because of my dad's experience of having an artistic dream and having to put it aside.
Michael Connelly
HomeExperienceParentsDreamWant
I still love Birkenstocks. I just think they are the most comfortable things; I even wear them in winter sometimes.
John Rocha
LoveWinterThinkSometimesWear
If there is one thing you can count on in your life, it's that your path will not always be easy.
Tony Evans
LifePathEasyYouWillCount
Bad boys do get the girls.
Tom Felton
BadGet
I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.
Ron Paul
MyselfThinkDecadeFlavorLike
Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.
Matt Bevin
ChildrenFoodWelcomePeopleDinner
My natural state is to be happy. I'm naturally buoyant. I wake up feeling, 'What a great morning!' I've had some tragedy in my life, absolutely, but I don't know one human being who hasn't. You either learn from it and become empowered by it, or you become a victim to it. It's life, after all.
Martin Short
LifeMorningGreatHappyBe Happy
The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.
Doug Liman
LoveGoodBadAirGoneSeen
Football is all I know.
Brian McDermott
FootballKnow
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
Chuck Close
WorkExperienceThoughtLookWhy
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